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that their bird cannot belong to the older known form. Gray did 

 not well indicate the distinctive characters of this species in the 

 'Proceedings' of this Society when he conferred a name upon 

 it (l. c.) ; but it was properly and completely described by Wallace 

 afterwards in ' The Ibis ' (I. c.) . It can readily be distinguished from 

 its ally by the purple breast, the general plumage of the two species 

 being the same, as are also the dimensions. 



The female resembles that of Pt. superbus, with rather a deeper 

 coloration. 



23. Ptilofus perousei. 



Ptilopus perousei, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. (1848) p. 195, pi. 54; 

 Cassin, ibid. (1858) 2nd ed. p. 2/4, pi. 33; Finsch & Hartl. Faun. 

 Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 110; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 548; 

 Finsch, Journ. fur Ornith. 1872, p. 44 ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas 

 1873, p. 10, Columbce. 



Ptilinope de Marie, Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, pi. 29. fig. 2. 



Columba kurukuru superba, Hombr. & Jacq. Ann. Scien. Nat. 

 (1841) torn, xvi.p. 316. 



Ptinilopus marice, Jacq. & Puch. Voy. Pole Sud (1853), torn. iii. 

 p. 115. 



Kurukuru samoensis, Des Murs & Prev. Voy. Venus, Zool. p. 247. 

 Type examined. 



Ptilopus marice, Bon. Compt. Rend. (1854) torn, xxxix. p. 877 ; 

 id. Iconog. Pig. (1857) pi. 26, ad. et juv.; id. Consp. Av. vol. ii. 

 p. 22. sp. 10. 



Ptilonopus marice, Gray, List Columb. (1856) p. 4 ; Reich. Tauben, 

 p. 96, pi. 240. fig. 2586 ; id. List B. Trop. Isl. p. 37 (1859). 



Ptilinopus ccesarinus, Hartl. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1864, p. 413, juv. 



Ptilinopus perousei, Cass. Expl. Exped. (1858) p. 274, pi. 33 ; 

 Reich. Tauben, Supp. p. 203, nov. taf. 38-40 ; Finsch & Hartl. 

 Faun. Centralpolyn. (1867) p. 110, t. xi. fig. 1 ; Graffe, Journ. fur 

 Ornith. 1870, pp. 122 & 408 ; Finsch, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1872, 

 p. 44. 



Ptilinopus marice, Finsch & Hartl. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1870, p. 131. 



Ptilonopus perousei, Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 441. 



Hab. Ovalau (Filhol) ; Upolu, Hapai {Graff e) ; Samoan Islands, 

 Viti-Levu {Graffe) \ Wakaia, Mokani, Vanua Levu, Loma Loma, 

 Kandavu, Mango {Layard) ; Fiji Islands ; Tonga or Friendly 

 Islands. 



This species was first described by Peale {I. c.) under the name 

 here adopted, and afterwards by Hombron and Jacquinot (/. c.) as 

 " Ptilinope de Marie," still later latinized by Jacquinot and Pucheran 

 (Z. c.) as Ptinilopus ! maria. Peale's appellation, however, has un- 

 doubted priority. Mr. Peale found it in the mountain-gorges of the 

 Feejee Islands, but not abundant. The native name, Manu-ma, 

 means shame or modest bird. It is one of the most beautiful and 

 curiously marked members of this genus. The young are so dif- 

 ferently coloured from the adult that they might easily be mistaken 

 for a different species. 



